Hungary

Eleven men will stand trial on June 21 over the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria in 2015, court officials in Hungary said Thursday, AFP reported.

In a case that caused widespread revulsion, the bodies of the 59 men, eight women and four children were already in an advanced state of decomposition when they were found.

China and Hungary have agreed to deepen cooperation within the Belt and Road Initiative and 16+1 framework.

China-Hungary relations are at their best after years of all-round development, Liu Qibao told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban this week.

Hungarian President Janos Ader on Monday approved a controversial law seen as targeting the respected Central European University founded by US billionaire George Soros, despite protests at home and abroad. The signing of the higher education legislation, the final legal hurdle before it passes into law, came after the largest street demonstration in Hungary in recent years, AFP reported.

On Monday, Hungary opened officially its military base in Hercegszántó, not far from the border with Serbia. The aim of the base is to stop illegal migration, announced Hungary's Defence Minister István Simicskó.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said Turkey is being "unfairly criticized" by the European Union. 

"It is necessary to get along with Turkey. We hand over our security to the Turks and criticize, attack and condemn them in unnecessary topics. This is not a smart policy," Orban told the public radio Kossuth on March 17. 

The second fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border will be completed by the end of May. In this way, a new migrant wave coming from Turkey will be averted, stated PM Viktor Orban to the state radio in Budapest.

Hungary must defend its independence and its national sovereignty again. We will stop Brussels and mass settlement, said Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban during the celebrations commemorating the national holiday and the anniversary of the Hungarian civil revolution in 1848-49.

CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks says he was "deeply concerned to learn that the Hungarian parliament approved a bill on border management."

In a statement on Wednesday, Muiznieks said the legislation was "likely to exacerbate the already highly problematic situation of asylum seekers in Hungary."

The Hungarian parliament on Tuesday approved the automatic detention of all asylum-seekers.

All asylum seekers entering Hungary and those currently there will be detained or moved to container camps at Hungary's southern borders, AFP reported.

Hungary has started to build a second fence along the southern border with Serbia, Reuters reported on Monday, citing Hungarian officials.

This move will "likely to exacerbate criticism from some of the country's European Union partners," the agency said.